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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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African History...
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Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
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Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
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over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
weird medieval guys
Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
a year ago
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
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Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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The First Stoic
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
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Understanding political violence.
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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Centuries of Childhood
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
6 months ago
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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Classical Wisdom
Sappho
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Philosopher Kings
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
a year ago
How can we train Resilience?
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
8 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
One I bought fifty years ago.
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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Early Christian Poetry
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
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Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
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Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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